Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black slavery, religion, and education, he examines such elementary questions as: what kinds of buildings Georgians lived in, how they solved their transportation problems, the nature of criminal law administration, and the range of occupations and vocations.
Originally published in 1976.
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Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Da...
This book contains 23 chapters. Each chapter recounts an individual's experience that was in some way touched by war. The individuals were personally interviewed by the author. The stories include the experiences of children who were prisoners of war; children who lived through Allied bombings; men who escaped the Nazis by going underground; German POWs and a Japanese slave laborer; two German POWs who, after more than 60 years, returned to their crash site in Europe; a former Hitler Youth member; a combat nurse in Vietnam; a woman British soldier; and various stories of American servicemen...
This book contains 23 chapters. Each chapter recounts an individual's experience that was in some way touched by war. The individuals were personally ...
